High 5 Adventure Learning Center has promoted associate executive director Jennifer Ottinger to executive director. In her new position, Ottinger now leads the 29-person team at the nonprofit adventure-based educational…
The Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) has withdrawn the draft standard it submitted for public review in November 2022 after finding that the large volume of comments received during…
Guinness World Records certified a new 5,807-foot-long (1,770 meters) zip line in Khasab, a port city on northern Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, as the longest zip wire over water. The dual…
Welsh adventure park operator Zip World opened a new gravity-powered “spiral suspension track” at its Penrhyn Quarry location in Bethesda, Wales, this May. The attraction, Aero Explorer, starts roughly 115…
A new fully-accessible suspended treetop walkway and observation tower opened June 21, 2022, in Rathdrum, Ireland—about an hour south of Dublin—as part of the new “Beyond the Trees” development within…
A new zip-line coaster from Quebec-based Zip-Rush is slated to open this month at Mont Sutton ski area in Quebec. Construction began on the roughly CA$1 million attraction in April.…
The Alliance Collaborative is hosting a three-day “Bootcamp” for professional and in-house inspectors and trainers, Sept. 19-21, 2022, at Trail’s End Camp in Beach Lake, Pa. The event is for…
A new two-span ZipTour opened at Snow King Mountain in Jackson, Wyo., June 8. It was manufactured by Terra-Nova LLC of Utah. The first span from the top measures 2,800…
Treetop Trekking 1000 Islands is scheduled to open May 14, located between Gananoque and Brockville on the 1000 Islands Parkway in Ontario at the site formerly operated as Skywood Eco…
As part of a recent expansion, TradeWinds Island Resorts in Saint Petersburg, Fla., unveiled the Zing Ray Zip, a three-story-tall dual zip line that takes guests soaring above the beach.…
In an effort to draw tourists to Kenya’s Mount Longonot National Park, zip lines will be installed across the mountain’s 1.1-mile-wide crater. Kenya’s tourism cabinet secretary Najib Balala sees the…
